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he used one example about iraq saying that governor romney wanted to see an increase in troops in iraq. what governor romney was saying was we needed a status of forces agreement in iraq, which is precisely what the president himself is trying to negotiate. the one who has been inconsistent is the president, who for example was calling assad and his -- secretary clinton was calling assad a reformer even as assad was beginning to carry out some of these massacres there. so it was a lack of clarity on foreign policy that the president has led which has led to many of the foreign policy problems we now have. >> finally, let me ask you about the state of florida. we've had a very close race here for some time. president obama had a lead. now it appears mitt romney is up a couple of points. do you see the race over in this state. >> i don't think it will be over in florida until it's over. we have a history of having close races around here for president, you guys may remember. i hope it won't be that close this time around. but it's going to be close. florida is always competitive state. w
he used one example about iraq saying that governor romney wanted to see an increase in troops in iraq. what governor romney was saying was we needed a status of forces agreement in iraq, which is precisely what the president himself is trying to negotiate. the one who has been inconsistent is the president, who for example was calling assad and his -- secretary clinton was calling assad a reformer even as assad was beginning to carry out some of these massacres there. so it was a lack of...
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le have been under attack in iraq and afghanistan. this nation is under threat. it is a constant matter of threat to this country an this administration has kept this country safe. so the issue will come up, but i think the record is very strong. i want to say something that back to these economic issues, let's not mistake what led to this deficit. by the time you opened up these wars, by the time you had the tax cuts, you had a $450 billion annual deficit with a financial collapse it was $1.5 trillion. the way you solve that in the short term, is making investm t investments in clean energy and manufacturing like the president is doing to put people back to work, to get revenues up. that is the best remedy for closing this deficit. not going to the george bush plan of more tax cuts. i want to say this, just very quickly. george bush may not be on the campaign trail, may not have been at the convention but his policies are embodied in romney's tax cut. >> david, arguments about green energy might carry more weight if we didn't have an electric battery maker file
le have been under attack in iraq and afghanistan. this nation is under threat. it is a constant matter of threat to this country an this administration has kept this country safe. so the issue will come up, but i think the record is very strong. i want to say something that back to these economic issues, let's not mistake what led to this deficit. by the time you opened up these wars, by the time you had the tax cuts, you had a $450 billion annual deficit with a financial collapse it was $1.5...
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military, and an iraq war veteran, but you should note something else about her. something that you can't see in these pictures. she doesn't have any breasts. she made a decision that thousands of women make every year, to remove her breasts for a preventative mastectomy. she was never diagnosed with cancer. but it's what she did after the surgery that is not as common. margaret smith joining me now. margaret, good morning. thank you for joining me on the show to share your story. >> i'm pleased to be here. >> first, tell me why did you decide to have your breasts removed? >> i've seen -- breast cancer is in my family. my mother has been battling the disease for over 20 years now. my aunt chris passed away from the disease back in 2001. and i found out that i had inherited the gene, the mutation number two, from my mother. after that, there's a couple options that you're able to choose from and i chose to go with the most drastic and chose preventive surgeries. >> you actually sent us a picture of yourself post-on. i want to share with it our viewers. it may be a
military, and an iraq war veteran, but you should note something else about her. something that you can't see in these pictures. she doesn't have any breasts. she made a decision that thousands of women make every year, to remove her breasts for a preventative mastectomy. she was never diagnosed with cancer. but it's what she did after the surgery that is not as common. margaret smith joining me now. margaret, good morning. thank you for joining me on the show to share your story. >> i'm...
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the green zone in iraq was shelled routinely. >> no one is thinking about libya. but in the month before the election to talk openly about what happen to ambassador stevens, reminding people, there is still no government in libya, still no security in libya, al qaeda entities, al qaeda affiliated entities are moving freely in libya, in fact, they are the most armed people in the country, and it raises the question, what did this war accomplish? and i think most people. most people view a show like this, a very news savvy audience don't know isn't a government in libya. >> that's not entirely true, david. there were elections, muslim fundamentalists lost badly. a moderate liberal pro western government was nominated. the institutions of government are not very strong in libya, but to categorize it as there being no government misses a very important election that took place and many conservatives lauded it because it brought to power moderate pro western liberals. >> what did we get? that's the debate the administration doesn't want to have this month and that's th
the green zone in iraq was shelled routinely. >> no one is thinking about libya. but in the month before the election to talk openly about what happen to ambassador stevens, reminding people, there is still no government in libya, still no security in libya, al qaeda entities, al qaeda affiliated entities are moving freely in libya, in fact, they are the most armed people in the country, and it raises the question, what did this war accomplish? and i think most people. most people view a...
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he spent 15 months in iraq for the u.s. army as an intelligence collector and full disclosure, he's my cousin. charlie mink, nice to see you, sir. >> hi, how are you doing, brooke? you never call me. >> you know, how about this, i'll put you on tv instead. let's begin with, this is personal for you. you served our country in iraq, you learned arabic in order to do your job over there. tell me exactly just when you were there, how did it help you? >> well, let me first try to connect for our viewers the two notions of language education and national security. it may not be an obvious connection and it kind of explains why our program is funded by the department of defense and not the department of education. when our uniform language personnel can speak other langz and engage expertly in the local culture, they are improving the reputation and the image of the united states. and they do that by refuting a very common criticism leveled against americans generally and that is that we expect the world to accommodate our languag
he spent 15 months in iraq for the u.s. army as an intelligence collector and full disclosure, he's my cousin. charlie mink, nice to see you, sir. >> hi, how are you doing, brooke? you never call me. >> you know, how about this, i'll put you on tv instead. let's begin with, this is personal for you. you served our country in iraq, you learned arabic in order to do your job over there. tell me exactly just when you were there, how did it help you? >> well, let me first try to...
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the reason i call it an apology tour, you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt and to saudi arabia and to turkey and iraq, and you skipped israel, our closest friend in the region. >> that's mitt romney repeating a charge that he's been making since the campaign began. the actual words came from the final debate this week in florida and just like all the other times, fact checkers have called the charge flat out false. it's called pants on fire false. this on debate night from our own fact checker, john berman. >> so what are the facts here? when the president took office he did travel to several countries talking about american foreign policy. in france, for example, he said america has shown arrogance and had been dismissive, even derisive though he also criticized europe in that very same speech and in none of these speeches, none of them in europe or the middle east or here at home did president obama use the word apology or say he's sorry. so our verdict here is it is false to call the president's speeches an apology tour even if he was critical of past u.s. foreign pol
the reason i call it an apology tour, you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt and to saudi arabia and to turkey and iraq, and you skipped israel, our closest friend in the region. >> that's mitt romney repeating a charge that he's been making since the campaign began. the actual words came from the final debate this week in florida and just like all the other times, fact checkers have called the charge flat out false. it's called pants on fire false. this on debate night from...
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and turkey and iraq, and you skipped israel, our closest friend in the region. you said that america had dictated to other nations. mr. president, america has not dictated to other nations. we have freed other nations from dictators. >> dan it is not a glossy pamph but resonates with the conservative base. >> it absolutely does. this is the age-old argument that conservatives have made against democratic presidents and candidates for years. i want to actually play for the viewers that exchange taken really within minutes clearly from the debate last night and also how the president reacted. listen to this. >> the president began what i call an apology tour of going to various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. i think they looked at that and saw weakness. >> nothing governor romney just said is true. starting with this notion of me apologizing. this has been probably the biggest whopper that's been told during the course of this campaign. >> now, there were a lot of moments in the did he bit, carol, where the president looked a little mifed. not
and turkey and iraq, and you skipped israel, our closest friend in the region. you said that america had dictated to other nations. mr. president, america has not dictated to other nations. we have freed other nations from dictators. >> dan it is not a glossy pamph but resonates with the conservative base. >> it absolutely does. this is the age-old argument that conservatives have made against democratic presidents and candidates for years. i want to actually play for the viewers...
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intervention in libya cost less than two weeks of the war in iraq. it turns out the president was right. when we checked the math, we found two weeks of the war in iraq costs about $5 billion at its height and the libya intervention was less than $1 billion. mostly cruise missiles launched. anderson? >> it was interesting to hear both talking tough about china tonight. the question is what can they do? >> it's interesting to get a sense of the chinese reaction. i talked to a bunch of chinese people with various levels. they had always thought they were going to like romney. three things they like. american business and american business in general over the last 30 or 40 years, the chinese thought republicans were the party of business and trade and he organized the olympics and the chinese think they went through the olympics. it has been a rude surprise to them that romney has been so tough. even in this debate, you notice obama kept saying they could be a partner and we want to cooperate with them, but romney hammered away for the most part. this w
intervention in libya cost less than two weeks of the war in iraq. it turns out the president was right. when we checked the math, we found two weeks of the war in iraq costs about $5 billion at its height and the libya intervention was less than $1 billion. mostly cruise missiles launched. anderson? >> it was interesting to hear both talking tough about china tonight. the question is what can they do? >> it's interesting to get a sense of the chinese reaction. i talked to a bunch...
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when martha raddatz answer asked that question, he criticized mitt romney's position on iraq. the question was about benghazi and attacks in libya and he immediately questioned mitt romney's foreign policy credentials. in politics when you get a question you don't like and don't want to answer, you pivot. >> and is the whole notion of throwing the intelligence community under the bus saying that's what they were telling us, we were only reporting what they were telling us, which is awkward for a vice president to do that. >> it's awkward for anybody. if you talk to people in the intelligence community and now at the state department, they're not han pi. they're not happy. the leadershipers of the administration in their view, jay carney speaks for the president, the vice president on stage last night essentially publicly scolding, publicly blaming others for what happened in the administration. those people don't like that. wolf, you've been in washington a long time. there's a history of this. if you go back during the whole saddam hussein, weapons of mass destruction, what h
when martha raddatz answer asked that question, he criticized mitt romney's position on iraq. the question was about benghazi and attacks in libya and he immediately questioned mitt romney's foreign policy credentials. in politics when you get a question you don't like and don't want to answer, you pivot. >> and is the whole notion of throwing the intelligence community under the bus saying that's what they were telling us, we were only reporting what they were telling us, which is...
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he has gone after al qaeda an gotten bin laden. he's brought the troops home from iraq. he led an incredibly successful intervention in libya. >> reporter: now, wolf, a little bit of detail about the president's day, he woke up day and did a little bit of prep with his advisers at camp david before flying here. senator kerry who was playing governor romney got a round of applause for his work there, i'm told. now they've flown here and the president gets a little downtime. then he'll have a steak and potatoes dinner with the first lady. that's what he did before that last successful debate. >> they don't want to make any changes on the food. that could be important. john kerry will join us live in our next hour. john mccain will join us live this hour. let's dig deeper with our chief political analyst, gloria borger. tonight, the third and final presidential debate for each of these two candidates. how important is this -- >> hugely, hugely important. this is going to be the last time before people vote that they're going to see these two candidates on the same stage tog
he has gone after al qaeda an gotten bin laden. he's brought the troops home from iraq. he led an incredibly successful intervention in libya. >> reporter: now, wolf, a little bit of detail about the president's day, he woke up day and did a little bit of prep with his advisers at camp david before flying here. senator kerry who was playing governor romney got a round of applause for his work there, i'm told. now they've flown here and the president gets a little downtime. then he'll have...
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china sees this as an attempt to thwart its rise. but to people like jonathan, there's nothing to fear. >> it's not like going to the moon. like it might have been 100 years ago. >> this is a new world, says jonathan. the people struggling back home, he says don't bash china. >> get out, get out! leave everyone behind you. >> cnn, beijing. >> when president obama and mitt romney face off for their final time on monday night, you can bet they'll pick up where they left off in the last debate, and as we have seen, china is a hot topic. joining us now is a man who has written extensively about china and who has spend years living there, author and lawyer gordon chang. as we saw in the last debate, china, of course, is the source of tough talk, especially for mitt romney where he said on day one if he were to win the presidency, he would label china as a currency manipulator. what is the danger of this tough talk? >> people talk about a trade war, but i don't really think it's going to happen. after all, countries that run enormous trade
china sees this as an attempt to thwart its rise. but to people like jonathan, there's nothing to fear. >> it's not like going to the moon. like it might have been 100 years ago. >> this is a new world, says jonathan. the people struggling back home, he says don't bash china. >> get out, get out! leave everyone behind you. >> cnn, beijing. >> when president obama and mitt romney face off for their final time on monday night, you can bet they'll pick up where they...
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egypt and to saudi arabia and to turkey and iraq. and by the way, you skipped israel, our closest friend in the region, but you went to the other nations. >> if we're going to talk about trips that we have taken, when i was a candidate for office, first trip i took was to visit our troops. and when i went to israel as a candidate, i didn't take donors, i didn't attend fund-raisers, i went to yaud vashem, the holocaust museum there, to remind myself the nature of evil and why our bond with israel will be unbreakable. >> that whole exchange to some degree or another here, really both candidates appealing to jewish voters. possibly jewish voters in florida. is florida still in play because it appears to be moving toward romney. >> moving toward romney, but still a dead heat. if you're governor romney, you look back three weeks and where are you today? in all nine of our tossup states, governor romney is in better shape today than three weeks ago. that doesn't mean he has the election won, that does mean he has the more recent momentum.
egypt and to saudi arabia and to turkey and iraq. and by the way, you skipped israel, our closest friend in the region, but you went to the other nations. >> if we're going to talk about trips that we have taken, when i was a candidate for office, first trip i took was to visit our troops. and when i went to israel as a candidate, i didn't take donors, i didn't attend fund-raisers, i went to yaud vashem, the holocaust museum there, to remind myself the nature of evil and why our bond with...
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his humvee hit an explosive device. >> you know, flipped it up in the air. what happened was, the engine block came through the passenger compartment, so it was pinning my leg down so i couldn't get out. >> reporter: the left side of his face had to be re-built with plates. other head injuries surfaced later. now medically retired living off disability, it has been hard for the couple and their four children. >> and you know, we were just really in an unsure phase of our life, trying to figure out what our next move would be. >> reporter: christina joined a wounded warrior wives page for support. >> i sent out, to operation home front, they were giving away homes to disabled veterans. >> reporter: and what did you think what you saw that? >> that it was too good to be true. >> reporter: she applied anyway. >> it was literally like a week later, they said you got the home. so -- >> reporter: what was the moment like for the both of you? >> she was in tears. >> reporter: the delucias moved into is their four-bedroom orlando house in mid-june, but not before fi
his humvee hit an explosive device. >> you know, flipped it up in the air. what happened was, the engine block came through the passenger compartment, so it was pinning my leg down so i couldn't get out. >> reporter: the left side of his face had to be re-built with plates. other head injuries surfaced later. now medically retired living off disability, it has been hard for the couple and their four children. >> and you know, we were just really in an unsure phase of our life,...
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including an outburst of violence across iraq. what's the latest? >> wolf, at least 12 people were killed in a series of shootings and bombings across iraq. daily violence has been largely dropping over the past four years. but last month was the deadliest in two years. the iraqi government blames the violence on insurgents linked to al qaeda. and more good news today for the u.s. housing market. foreclosures fell in nearly two-thirds of the country's biggest markets. realty track says the most markets are past the worst of the housing crisis, but there are still a few trouble spots including several cities in florida. that state was especially hard hit by the downturn. and the inside of the statue of liberty will be open for business on sunday. the interior has been closed for a year because of renovations to make it more accessible for disabled visitors. the changes will allow 26,000 more people to visit every year. the final cost of the renovations will be about $30 million when they're finished early next year. so the chance for people to go, it
including an outburst of violence across iraq. what's the latest? >> wolf, at least 12 people were killed in a series of shootings and bombings across iraq. daily violence has been largely dropping over the past four years. but last month was the deadliest in two years. the iraqi government blames the violence on insurgents linked to al qaeda. and more good news today for the u.s. housing market. foreclosures fell in nearly two-thirds of the country's biggest markets. realty track says...
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, which is new and kind of disturbing, because they've been doing other stuff, including an attack in amman, georgia, over the weekend they claim credit for. >>> 15 minutes past the hour, with 12 days to go before america votes and the race for the white house dead even, mitt romney and president obama are pressing the flesh in all those battleground states. the president campaigns this morning in tampa, florida, then he'll jet to richmond, virginia, and finally chicago where he will become the first u.s. president to vote early. romney makes three campaign stops in ohio today. he is starting in cincinnati, his wife, ann, will headline three campaign rallies in florida. >>> this actually happened. police in kansas city on the lookout for a suspect they say kra who used a samurai sword to rob a chicken restaurant. police say he took off in an old chevy pickup and is still on the loose this morning. >> a sword. >>> some people barely able to outrun the flames as a wildfire flames across the town of wetmore, colorado. this is this morning. it is only about 15% contained. more than 15,000
, which is new and kind of disturbing, because they've been doing other stuff, including an attack in amman, georgia, over the weekend they claim credit for. >>> 15 minutes past the hour, with 12 days to go before america votes and the race for the white house dead even, mitt romney and president obama are pressing the flesh in all those battleground states. the president campaigns this morning in tampa, florida, then he'll jet to richmond, virginia, and finally chicago where he will...
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he wanted to subdivide iraq into three portions after 9/11. wanted to give $2 billion no questions asked to iran to show the middle east we were okay with them and didn't want to invade them. paul ryan doesn't have a lot of expertise in foreign policy, but joe biden has a lot of experience and been wrong pretty much all the time. >> go ahead, paul. >> these guys are going to put the other's principle on trial. if ryan is smart, and he is very. he won't attack joe biden the way erick did and erick has points to make, he will attack president obama. he will say i predict on foreign policy is this, if mitt romney had been our president, he would have never moved heaven and earth to go after osama bin laden. that's a quote from mitt romney. if mitt romney had been our president, we would still have troops in iraq. he called ending the war in iraq a tragedy. bin laden would be alive, general motors would be dead but bin laden alive. and we'd still be at war in iraq. this is remarkable looking at the suck eszful wind down of our combat operations in
he wanted to subdivide iraq into three portions after 9/11. wanted to give $2 billion no questions asked to iran to show the middle east we were okay with them and didn't want to invade them. paul ryan doesn't have a lot of expertise in foreign policy, but joe biden has a lot of experience and been wrong pretty much all the time. >> go ahead, paul. >> these guys are going to put the other's principle on trial. if ryan is smart, and he is very. he won't attack joe biden the way erick...
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troops out of iraq, no more u.s. troops in iraq. americans are war weary, if you will, he's got a timeline to getting all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. but probably much more important than that, brooke, is that he managed to kill bin laden. that is something very, very popular. so i was a little surprised that romney went after the president in this speech today on iraq, because getting u.s. troops out of iraq has generally been popular, though romney did make valid points. the iraqi government, nuri al maliki is moving closer and closer to iran, it's facilitating iranian supplies of weapons to syria. this is not a good aftermath of all the years of struggle in iraq for sure. getting americans out of iraq that was basically very, very popular. >> wolf blitz, i know you'll be dissecting this speech even further at the top of the hour. we'll look forward to it in the situation room. thank you. >> thank you. >> and are you thinking about selling some of your old items? well, you may want to do it fast. we have details on a case bein
troops out of iraq, no more u.s. troops in iraq. americans are war weary, if you will, he's got a timeline to getting all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. but probably much more important than that, brooke, is that he managed to kill bin laden. that is something very, very popular. so i was a little surprised that romney went after the president in this speech today on iraq, because getting u.s. troops out of iraq has generally been popular, though romney did make valid points. the iraqi...
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arabia and to turkey and iraq. and you skipped israel. our closest friend in the region. >> why did he skip israel? the first four years of his administration, visited all these other neighboring countries but skipped israel. i know he was there as a candidate, but not as a president. >> just like mitt romney went there as a candidate, but mitt romney didn't go there for a fund-raiser, he went there for serious business. if you actually look back over the last 11 presidents, seven of them never traveled to israel, and two of them didn't travel there until their second term. it's not that -- >> here's what's unusual. here's what's unusual. other presidents, they may not have visited israel, ronald reagan, but he didn't go to egypt, didn't go to iraq, and skipped israel. didn't go to saudi arabia and skip israel. if you're in the neighborhood, usually, you visit israel. >> actually, of the four that traveled to the region and eventually traveled to israel, they all traveled to arab countries first. >> they went -- >>
arabia and to turkey and iraq. and you skipped israel. our closest friend in the region. >> why did he skip israel? the first four years of his administration, visited all these other neighboring countries but skipped israel. i know he was there as a candidate, but not as a president. >> just like mitt romney went there as a candidate, but mitt romney didn't go there for a fund-raiser, he went there for serious business. if you actually look back over the last 11 presidents, seven...
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they refused to commit to an end date. and they openly opposed a signing of an arms control treaty with russia that other republicans urged that we ratified. now the governor is running away from everything he said in the last year and a half. the congressmen is running away from everything he voted for. i am not making this up. this is real. ladies and gentlemen, they are now abandoning the central tenet of their party's agenda. the accounting on the american people to have an overwhelming case of amnesia on november 6. all of a sudden romney claims he does not hea $5 trillion tax cut that will raise taxes for the middle-class to the president has a new term for it, he calls a what? romnesia.' it is the most accurate term i have heard in a while. and it is contagious because of a sudden, congressman ryan, the guy picked because of his new ideas about how to drastically cut spending, the guy whose budget passed cutting everything 19% across-the-board, his budget voucherizes medicare. not cut those programs. -- all the sudd
they refused to commit to an end date. and they openly opposed a signing of an arms control treaty with russia that other republicans urged that we ratified. now the governor is running away from everything he said in the last year and a half. the congressmen is running away from everything he voted for. i am not making this up. this is real. ladies and gentlemen, they are now abandoning the central tenet of their party's agenda. the accounting on the american people to have an overwhelming...
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they refused to commit to an end date in afghanistan. his national security adviser -- urged be ratified. the governor is running away from everything he said in the last year-and-a-half. the congressman is running away from everything he voted for. i am not making this up. this is real. ladies and all men -- ladies and johnson, they are counting on -- gentlemen, they are counting on the american people -- ladies and gentlemen, they are counting on the american people to have an overwhelming case of bemis on november 6th. all of a sudden -- case of amnesia on november 6th. the president has a new term for it. he calls it romnesia. all of a sudden, he does not have a five trillion dollar tax cut. congressman ryan, the guy whose budget cut everything 19% across the board, the guy who pledged to voucherize medicare, all of a sudden, he does not plan to cut their programs. he plans to slow their growth. he eliminates $2,500 tax cuts for middle-class parents, it takes $1,000 off of pell grants, knocking god knows how many people out of colleg
they refused to commit to an end date in afghanistan. his national security adviser -- urged be ratified. the governor is running away from everything he said in the last year-and-a-half. the congressman is running away from everything he voted for. i am not making this up. this is real. ladies and all men -- ladies and johnson, they are counting on -- gentlemen, they are counting on the american people -- ladies and gentlemen, they are counting on the american people to have an overwhelming...
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i am an rv -- army veteran. my daughter was a platoon leader in iraq. we have 150,000 men and women on active duty in virginia. 830,000 veterans in virginia, about the highest number per capita of any state. the, the pentagon, the great navy base in norfolk, the home of the coast guard station, many, many places where men and women in uniform proudly serve. it was the pentagon on a virginia's soil that was one of the places attacked on 9/11. i think that perhaps our roots going back to the first commander in chief, general and president george washington, give us that unique sense of history when it comes to serving in the military. while most said the jobs in the economy and get and things of that nature, economic issues, are at the forefront of people's minds, some of the events of the past few weeks have put the issue of foreign policy front and center once again. no matter what the economy needs, america's role as the leader of the free world is always an issue of importance not only for americans, but around the world. there are many uncertainties,
i am an rv -- army veteran. my daughter was a platoon leader in iraq. we have 150,000 men and women on active duty in virginia. 830,000 veterans in virginia, about the highest number per capita of any state. the, the pentagon, the great navy base in norfolk, the home of the coast guard station, many, many places where men and women in uniform proudly serve. it was the pentagon on a virginia's soil that was one of the places attacked on 9/11. i think that perhaps our roots going back to the...
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he was not saying let's keep fighting in iraq indefinitely. that being said, it clearly is a strong point for obama that he has managed to pull troops out of iraq, announced the withdrawal timeline for afghanistan. that is broadly supported by americans across the political spectrum, and that is why mitt romney is engaging in a delicate tightrope walk that i referred to. he wants to critique obama for not having a muscular enough view of american power without going into suggesting that he will use this gold-plated military that we are talking about in all sorts of different situations. mitt romney has not talked about afghanistan much because the bottom line is that even within his own party americans are pretty sick of a decade of war and support of of the policies obama has pursued to to me to -- end those conflicts. host: from twitter -- governor romney, i'd temper my remarks on the u.s. strong principal global leadership. you will not find universal agreement. you can share your opinions on twitter and we can share it on the air. larry. g
he was not saying let's keep fighting in iraq indefinitely. that being said, it clearly is a strong point for obama that he has managed to pull troops out of iraq, announced the withdrawal timeline for afghanistan. that is broadly supported by americans across the political spectrum, and that is why mitt romney is engaging in a delicate tightrope walk that i referred to. he wants to critique obama for not having a muscular enough view of american power without going into suggesting that he will...
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. >> when we talk about drones, their use an ordinary warfare in afghanistan and iraq is quite uncontroversial. in iraq, you are talking about hundreds of thousands during the iraq war in any given year. i just bought a drone on amazon for 200 the to dollars. the ordinary soldier will have almost their own drawn relatively soon. the technology is already here. it is changing the nature of warfare. the libya opposition to gaddafi had their own severely strong for $100,000. if you are able -- for the ordinary soldier, drones are integrated into how you proceed in the battlefield, whether it is surveillance drones, armed drones, or both. >> yes sir. please. >> uav's. i once told them we had to go to toys r us and buy these things. that was the evolution of the technology. when they gave me a bunch, i used to say, do not tell me the problem. tell me the solutions. you articulated the problems extraordinarily well. what would you do if you were in charge? that is the real crux of where we go. you cannot stop technology. i will not begin to tell you what i saw 11 years ago compared to today. >> let
. >> when we talk about drones, their use an ordinary warfare in afghanistan and iraq is quite uncontroversial. in iraq, you are talking about hundreds of thousands during the iraq war in any given year. i just bought a drone on amazon for 200 the to dollars. the ordinary soldier will have almost their own drawn relatively soon. the technology is already here. it is changing the nature of warfare. the libya opposition to gaddafi had their own severely strong for $100,000. if you are able...
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in 2006, that was the iraq war election. there was hostility and a low approval rating for president bush. 2008 was the recession election. then the republicans swept back in control. both houses of the state legislature, the senate had been republican, and the state house by the biggest edge, 112 republicans, 91 democrats, the biggest edge any party has had since the 1950's. and it senator pat to me -- sen. pat toomey elected by nine percentage points. we have three statewide offices up for election in the state, auditor general, attorney general, and state treasurer. they are very spirited contest. we often have a split winners in those elections. the state could go for obama, as it did in 2008. but they could elect a republican attorney general. that's not uncommon. pennsylvania, despite the fact that we're seeing more straight party voting in the last three elections than we used to come unless ticket splitting, but they will still split tickets and elected democrat or republican statewide in a very competitive state des
in 2006, that was the iraq war election. there was hostility and a low approval rating for president bush. 2008 was the recession election. then the republicans swept back in control. both houses of the state legislature, the senate had been republican, and the state house by the biggest edge, 112 republicans, 91 democrats, the biggest edge any party has had since the 1950's. and it senator pat to me -- sen. pat toomey elected by nine percentage points. we have three statewide offices up for...